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Microsoft's Bing can no longer be accessed in China (4 hours ago now)
CNBC ^ | 4 hours ago | HuiLeng Tan

Posted on 01/23/2019 11:57:46 PM PST by cba123

Microsoft's search engine Bing could not be accessed in mainland China as of Thursday morning local time. That marks the apparent blocking of the last major non-Chinese search platform that had been operating there.

According to a report from the FT, which cited two unnamed sources, that blockage came on the order of the government.

"We've confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine (our) next steps," a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed in an email to CNBC.

(Please see full story at the link)

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bing; china; dictatorship; fascism; google; internet; microsoft; yahoo
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Just noticed this...

FYI

1 posted on 01/23/2019 11:57:46 PM PST by cba123
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To: cba123

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/24/microsofts-bing-search-engine-can-no-longer-be-accessed-in-china.html


2 posted on 01/23/2019 11:58:32 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Don't worry - Goolag, which influenced the 2018 midterm elections in favor of the Demokratzis, is currently suppressing information at the behest of the Chinese dictators.

Much as they'll do here if they manage to help the Nutzi Party get back into power.

Unless, of course, "something" happens to them... ;-)

3 posted on 01/24/2019 12:11:56 AM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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It took them until only recently because they thought bing was actually Chinese.
4 posted on 01/24/2019 12:24:30 AM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: an amused spectator

Look at how quickly the Venezuelan government shut down the internet access there; they’ve learned that this is how to control people - control their communications and access to information.


5 posted on 01/24/2019 1:50:41 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: cba123

I can also confirm this. This is a bother, but not critical. I use “Search Encrypt” and don’t have a problem at all. I haven’t used Google in years, and not because it is banned. DuckDuckGo is also banned.

Of course, you can tunnel out using a VPN and get it, but why bother?


6 posted on 01/24/2019 2:18:10 AM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: cba123

7 posted on 01/24/2019 2:21:29 AM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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Are you in Red China?


8 posted on 01/24/2019 2:29:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: cba123

Chinese trying to exercise total control of the narrative. No free speech for them.


9 posted on 01/24/2019 2:36:38 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: cba123

Maybe Microsoft should remove H1B visa access to the Red Chinese working in Redmond and make the jobs available to Americans....

Just a thought.


10 posted on 01/24/2019 3:00:27 AM PST by Starcitizen
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To: Alas Babylon!

Yes. I live in Communist China. I’ve been living here for a solid fifteen years, now.

Oh, sure, I miss many things like a decent pizza, unlimited cups of coffee, and my guns. And why did I ever get rid of my GTO? On the other hand, I eat far better than I ever did before. I have a great house with an astounding view, and the girls here are slim, busty, and very friendly.

Most of what you see on China in Western media is just propagandized nonsense. Yes, China is a police state, but it’s not what everyone thinks it is.


11 posted on 01/24/2019 3:05:46 AM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: vannrox
Oh, sure, I miss many things like a decent pizza, unlimited cups of coffee, and my guns. And why did I ever get rid of my GTO? On the other hand, I eat far better than I ever did before. I have a great house with an astounding view, and the girls here are slim, busty, and very friendly.

Who could ask for anything more?

12 posted on 01/24/2019 3:51:29 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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I use bing.... not prejudiced like google. The Chinese commies like google which accommodates them.


13 posted on 01/24/2019 3:59:52 AM PST by dennisw
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America?


14 posted on 01/24/2019 4:07:11 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: dennisw

I use Bing too for the same reason I read Playboy as a kid — for the pictures.

Actually, Microsoft has a lot of bad aspects too but in the hierarchy of my hate, Microsoft/Bing fall well below Google in my book.


15 posted on 01/24/2019 4:53:02 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: fishtank
America?

Well, yes, for my part. I certainly wouldn't forsake my country to live in some totalitarian hell-hole in order to accrue a few petty material advantages. But that's just me.

16 posted on 01/24/2019 5:14:45 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
"Iuse Bing too for the same reason I read Playboy as a kid — for the pictures."

Playboy had pictures?. As a teen I always procured a copy of the magazine for the articles and the Gahan Wilson cartoons ! /s

As to the internet, Europe and America are trending the direction of China as to access and content.

17 posted on 01/24/2019 5:17:43 AM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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To: cba123
A few years ago while in Hong Kong I tried to access "google.com" on the hotel's wifi system.All I could get was "google.cn with "cn" being the national "extension" for China. Curious...I decided to check something I had read about so I searched "Tienanmen Square".Unlike here where you get thousands of photos of dead and dying students being carried off by their friends all you get there are photos of a peaceful,serene place with a benevolent Mao Tse Tung smiling down at you.

So what I had read was true...China does seriously censor the internet.

I wasn't surprised.

18 posted on 01/24/2019 5:35:50 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: an amused spectator
Don't worry - Goolag, which systematically and deliberately 'disappeared' over half a million images of Obama's birth certificate in mid-July 2007, and influenced the 2018 midterm elections in favor of the Demokratzis, is currently suppressing information at the behest of the Chinese dictators.
19 posted on 01/24/2019 5:47:38 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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To: Captainpaintball

20 posted on 01/24/2019 5:48:58 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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